Brent Thiele has written a great article that confirms 'teaching doesnt always translate to learning'. Brent's article talks about the coach understanding each players' strengths and weaknesses and importantly the various learning styles and how coaches need to recognise how each player best learns and therefore, how the teaching/message needs to be delivered.

Josh Vanderloo (AFL National Development Manager) has written a great article on Introducing Young Players to Our Game and much of the contents provides perspective and answers on a number of questions that are often get raised by clubs, coaches and parents at the local junior/community level. As part of the article, there is also a great little video clip that encapsulates the thinking!

The 'Stats Tracker' App was released at the start of February and, in the first two months, the number of downloads and the feedback received from many coaches that have been using it has been fantastic.

Across all levels of local, community football, “Kicking” is a skill that challenges the majority of players and, coaches regularly comment that the technique is very complex and hard to teach or remediate. The coach is often a good kick themselves however they find it hard to ‘teach’ the skill. The Modern Game can help your coaches.

With pre-season training kicking off and a new season ahead, AFL coaches across Australia are looking for an edge that can enhance their coaching and empower their players. The Modern Game in association with EvolveIT Australia is excited to announce the release of the latest iOS designed App specifically for iPads: Stats Tracker.

To all the coaches participating in finals over the coming weeks, The Modern Game would like to wish you and your players the very best!
This is a very exciting time of the year where all the teaching and development of your players throughout the season hopefully pays off and the players have the confidence and skills to compete against the better teams in their grade.

Clubs are regularly requesting information on quality resources they can access for their junior coaches - look no further. Further into this article there are a couple links to a number of coaching resources which come highly recommended by AFL Victoria.